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My Virtual Private Server tutorial was fairly extensive, but it left out something important: information security! I think it’s wise to revisit the topic now, since security and encryption are critical in any application…
The previous post about Self-Hosted Password Managers was well received, and it brought up some interesting discussion on Twitter. A common takeaway was the importance of two-factor authentication (2FA for short). Two-factor…
Do you have a password you use everywhere? Be honest, we’re friends here. Good password security is critical, but few take it seriously. I understand why, life has become too complex to keep track of everything inside your…
The Internet is a beautiful thing, but every rose has its thorn. One that bothers me in particular is the slow encroachment of Cancel Culture. The Internet was not designed as a tool for censorship, and the authors of its…
I already explained how The Cloud is just someone else’s computer, so you should already be suspicious about any service that offers cheap and easy storage for anything. The classic security trilemma is you cannot easily…
Not your keys, not your coins. In the crypto world, this is an essential truth. Even if you’re not an expert on private-public key cryptography, you intuitively understand that allowing someone else to control your assets…
I was inspired by BowTiedChukar’s guide to setting up BTCPay Server using LunaNode, so I spent some time reading the BTCPay docs to get more familiar. The 3rd party route through LunaNode is an excellent one, since you are…
While you may not have heard the term Marketing Automation before, you’ve certainly been exposed to it. This kind of software is designed to automate many of the tedious aspects of acquiring, communicating, and tracking…
It’s easy enough to host your own blog. Once you have a website running and the visitors start arriving, you’ll be left with the question how can I track and analyze my traffic? The most popular choice is to use…
Cloud has to be the most over-used and under-understood term of the last 10 years. The problem is that “cloud” can refer to many things, since at its core a cloud service is simply a remote service. I’ll use a…
Everyone has heard the term VPN, but many do not understand why they came about, how they work, or how to set one up. They are useful for more than just watching country-specific streaming video. Luckily, Devil is here to bring…
In Sending Email, we learned how to get email from our server and onto the Internet using Mailgun. Now we will learn how to receive and store email. Luckily I covered a lot of the technical aspects of email deliver in that post,…